Now we're Cooking with Gas! (Campervan LPG Install Part 2) | Transit Van Conversion E48
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It's time to finish the gas install in our campervan! This is the second part of our setup after mounting the underslung LPG tank in the last video.
We went for the Voyager 4500 cooker which has 2 hobs, a grill and an oven. We just need to make all the connections for our gas regulator, manifold and the oven itself now!
We followed the British standard BS EN 1949:2001 and had all of our gas install in our campervan checked over by a Gas Safe engineer afterwards. Thanks to David from Leisure Heat for that!
Will it pass the Gas Safe check so we can use our kettle for the first time and make our first cup of tea? We'll see!
Thanks for watching! Any comments or questions? Let us know below!
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We've used our oven a lot on the road now and love it, it's been great to make copious amounts of tea up to a full Sunday roast and everything in between 😋If you're installing a similar setup then all the different bits of kit and products we used in the video should be linked in the description, and you can also find our diagrams there as well 👍
We had our gas install checked over by David from Leisure Heat (www.leisureheat.com ) and can highly recommend him if you need something similar and are in the Plymouth/Exeter area!
i am dreading the day you guys finish the campervan and i will not have anymore of your videos to watch.
Ah thanks, don't worry there's still a few more build videos to come and we're planning to make some travel videos in the van too 😊
I was enjoying this Great vid until you put the milk in the cup before the hot water 🧐😜, Not much left to do by the looks of things, enjoy your time in it🤙🤙
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haha sorry about that, it's the way we like it 😀 Each to their own! (Although milk first is better 😅). Thanks very much! Yep getting the gas in was pretty much the last big project!
@@SelfBuiltStories All good just don’t attempt the scone wars 😜, I’ve been in my van L4H3 Transit for the last 2 years, before that 5 years in a mk6 LWB. Plenty of room in new van.
@@Basha72 Haha we're covered on that, we both have them different ways round so we've hedged our bets 🤣 Awesome, lots of adventures no doubt!
Milk goes in after the tea bag comes out 😊
Milk first in our van 😛
MILK IN FIRST...????? What is wrong with you...? It was all going so well until then....
Haha, that's the way we've always done it, tastes good! 😄
Great job 👏. Can you fit the worktop tight to the oven or do you need to leave 20mm around the oven?
Cheers 🙂 And I wouldn't advise it, the air gap is important because of the heat of the oven. We did overhang ours slightly into the 20mm space to hide the plywood top of the cabinet and the aluminium sheet, but not by much. The hob burners need to be higher than the worktop as well so that the flame can't lick up the sides, so we spent a while figuring out the right height of the shelf when we built the cabinet so that the worktops sit lower than the top of the oven 👍
I have only one mild complaint... Milk in first?!? I don't know if that is a Southern thing but that is sacrilege up North!
Always happy to see a notification from yourselves, you both inspired me and the missus to build our own microcamper that we finished in June. Keep up the great work!
Haha yep, that's how we like it 😀 We're not the only ones around here either! We sometimes add an extra splash for good measure at the end too though 😛 Thanks a lot, glad to hear it and hope you're getting some great adventures in it!
I fitted a gas pressure meter, so I could periodically check for any possible leaks. And finally, added a solenoid gas valve under the body next to the tank, with an easily accessible control switch in the cab. This way it's easy to isolate gas whilst driving.
Cool, that's handy. Yeah we always turn off our gas when we driving, its easily accessible right by the sliding door so we've got a pretty good habit of doing it now 🙂
I was really enjoying Part 2 of your gas install.....and then you made that tea....!! What kind of monsters are you? 😂
Just made another cuppa like it now, it tastes great, honest! 😀😋
Yet another brilliant video - but I am slightly disturbed by how you make your tea. 🤣🤣
Cheers! It's definitely proofing controversial 🤣
Of all the fantastic and detailed work you've done on this van, the thing that really astonishes me is you pumping your own LPG. I wish we could do that here in the states. The places we go to have our tanks filled make it seem like you have to have a Doctorate to operate the valve. Many of them are even refusing to fill onboard tanks siting some "safety" crap. As if it is inherently unsafe to fill a tank attached to a vehicle. I can't even leave my tanks in then back of my pickup.
Cheers. 🫖🍵
Interesting, we did not know that! That does seem strange to us as we've filled up dozens of times now in multiple countries and almost all of them have been self service. Are there many places to have it filled up at least? And thanks a lot! 😀👍
@@SelfBuiltStories Fill stations are few and far between. When traveling, I generally look for "farm and home" type stores, RV dealerships and "Coops". If you get to an area where off grid camping is popular, like the desert south west, they are more plentiful.
@@ssteele1812 Cool, handy to know if we ever end up taking our van to the states then 😛
Another great video 👌......but milk first, guys????👎😂
Haha, that's the best way! (If it helps we often top it up with a splash at the end too 😄) And cheers! 👍
Another perfect job. You two inspire me.
Thanks as always 😊
Love you’re videos, so educational❣️
Thank you 🙂🙏
A very cool and tidy job. Everything takes longer than anticipated - you've been there before. Bending pipe, making connections, running wires - it just takes uo so much time. Add to that the setting up for the filming, the filming itself, the post production, the upload, comments and likes. Most people just do not realize, how much effort goes into these videos.
Thanks for another job well done! 🏆
Cheers and hugs from Germany - stay safe! 🚐☁🍀
Definitely, we gave up trying to estimate how long everything would take. Just driving to and from Screwfix to get the extra pipe took an hour and a half that we hadn't planned for 😂 And yeah the filming and editing easily made the whole build 3-5x longer, so it's great that people are enjoying watching it to make that worthwhile! 😛
Great video...... Look forward to next one
Cheers, hopefully the next one will be soon 🙂
Ok, first off, great video as usual. Your attention to detail is amazing. Great camera skills too. But being a Yank, why oh why would you put milk in tea???? Milk is for coffee!!!🤣 (actually cream or half and half if I'm being honest ...)
Seriously though, while I have no desire to build a camper van like you two have, I've learned quite a lot about building just watching you work. Your willingness to jump right in and go for it is truly inspiring.
But milk in tea? I guess if I were British it would make sense, but then I'd be a part of the milk first vs. milk after argument and I get into enough arguments as it is.
Haha cheers, we've had quite a few comments about how we put the milk in our tea, but wasn't expecting this one! Pretty sure *not* having milk in it would be more controversial over here, and cream would be very odd 🤣 But yes tea is delicious with milk, the debate is whether it goes first or last! If you ordered a pot of tea over here and didn't get given a small jug of milk with it (usually with way more than you need for your cuppa) then there would be questions! To be fair there are those that favour a black tea, but the default would be with milk 😀 Glad you're enjoying the videos, thanks for watching!
Great videos thanks, do you have a link to the crimp spade terminals you use? they seem to be good quality. I have several from amazon and they are all junk. Also what crimper tool do you have? Thanks
Cheers :) And yep, there should be a link to them in the description. We used heat shrink terminals for everything and got them all from a great seller on eBay 👍
Underneath the van is like Swiss cheese 😂🤣😂🤣
Haha yeah, thankfully no more holes required 😀
Just subscribed and went to watch the whole van series. Have you been converting this van for several years now?
Cool, hope you enjoy it! We built it on and off over a couple of years and are slowly catching up with all the videos 😎
Firexo fire extinguisher is worth a look 👍
That does look interesting, cheers 👍
Love your videos, I would of advised not to fit gas
I have finished our transit build and the problem we have Trying to find a petrol station that sells LPG .There is an app but we found even that was wrong when we travelled to a petrol station only to find they no longer did LPG
Cheers! 👍 That's interesting, we haven't had any problems filling up but our tank does last a few months so we have plenty of time to find somewhere 😛 We much prefer cooking on gas so very happy we have it (and love having an oven!). Guess it depends where in the country you are and how often you have to do it 🙂
Never seen someone so happy to boil the kettle & cook pizza 😁😁, but seriously tho, well done on yet another quality install
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Barry
Haha it's true, after all the work to get it all setup that moment of turning on the gas for the first time was quite magical! 😂🥳 We often find that things that are just day-to-day in the house are really satisfying when you test them out in the van for the first time, it was the same turning on the electrics and the first time we had running water! Thanks!
Really do enjoy you and your cat on the build ! You two are a great team
Thank you very much! He (Jackson) liked to get involved in every project just as much as us 😺
Simple trick with bending copper is filling them with sand and salt before bending! It resists the kink from the insides. Can be annoying to remove though.
Love the videos keep it up. Your build has massively inspired ours and we just got our bed built.
Thanks so much!
Although don’t think LPG is for us, (maybe we’ll see, things always change)
Have you thought about a kind of skid plate around the tank?
Cheers! You're welcome and glad they've been helpful 🙂 Yeah we did come across that method but can't really get our heads round how you would get all the sand out if you've got lots of intricate bends in one bit of 8mm pipe 😛 And do you mean to protect it? It's not something we've really thought about as it's mounted quite high and a similar setup to the fuel tank. We check it every now and then when we go under there and the underbody paint we sprayed it with has been holding up really well, but we'll redo that every now and then peace of mind too 👍
This is great! Just wondering, do you have a gas leak alarm in addition to the pen that is always on? Or do you just periodically check everything with the pen?
Cheers, and we have a carbon monoxide and smoke alarm permanently installed in the van. You can also get lpg leak detectors, and the pen we just have on hand for extra peace of mind and to pinpoint any leak if we suspect one 👍
@@SelfBuiltStories Brilliant, thanks!
@@thomaslittle9284 no problem 👍
Another great vLog guys. The van is looking great.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Great video once again. Thinking of buying the same oven, now that you have had the time to use it on your travels how have you found it ? Thanks
Cheers! We really like it and are very glad we went for a full gas oven as we use it a lot. Great to be able to have the variety to cook pretty much anything we would in the house (or just to bung a pizza in on a lazy day 😛). The hobs and the oven part work great, although being a small size for a campervan you do have to get a bit creative sometimes. So with pizza we often have to cut it in half and position each piece slightly off from the other or it won't fit and we can't close the door. But we usually have to cut in in half just to fit in in the fridge first anyway 😅 The grill is good but the element is right down the center only, so it doesn't really cook much on the sides. We've learnt to use it like that so if we make toast under the grill we'll just stick two pieces one behind the other in the middle. So it took a bit of getting used to because of the size, but we wouldn't be without it now!
@@SelfBuiltStories thanks for the reply.
@@Chris-Hay-on-Wye no problem 👍
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I've loved watching you both grow with your skills. Your very inspirational & doing a great job. Very well done. I've got to do the gas on my caravan soon so thanks for the tips.
Thank you very much 😊 Hope your gas install goes well too, good luck! 👍
Nice work! I had no doubts that you would pass the check with flying colours. Great design, great implimentation.
Cheers, we were a little apprehensive but confident as you never really know if its the first time you've done it., So it was a great feeling being able to have the first cuppa afterwards (still in the motorway services car park 😛)!
Without a doubt the best gas install video out there. I finished my van a couple of years ago now however still look forward to your new vids. I used to recommend the Greg Virgo channel however tbh it’s yours now as everything you cover is explained so well with the bonus of plenty of smiles along the way. You need to do another van to keep us all entertained 😊well done
Thank you very much! That's very kind of you to say, no plans as yet to do another van but you never know...! Looking forward to a lot more adventures in this one first 😊
Phwaarrr, that looked a bit fiddly! Greatful for you showing the autogas filling procedure - that was really thoughtful.
Yeah it was surprising how long it took to just connect up that last tiny length of pipe! Although a large part of that was having do to the round trip drive from the sticks to the nearest Screwfix to get more of it 😅 No problem, it was the first time we'd ever done it so it was an interesting experience! Was fairly straightforward in the end but you never know until you've done it 🙂
I am wondering if installing a marine inspection hatch from the other side of the bulkhead behind the stove could have help you doing the gas connection and also provide easy access for leak inspection with your leak detector.
It would let you get to the back of it but the access would be a bit restricted as the cab seat on the other side is fixed. But we don't really need it as we have full access from above or in front as we made the top of the drawer area a separate piece so we can lift it up, and we can take the drawer out easily as well 🙂👍
Have you had to get it inspected by a GasSafe Engineer? 😊
We didn't have to as it's only mandatory in the UK if you want to rent your campervan, but we wanted to and would highly recommend anyone doing a DIY gas install to do it as well. It wasn't too expensive and gives us peace of mind that everything is done correctly and is safe for both us and others when we're parked up or travelling on ferries/eurotunnel 👍
I am wondering if a short flex tube behind the range would be an option
It would definitely make it easier to connect up but it's not allowed by the regulations, it has to be done using rigid pipe. The only time you can use flexible hose is if the appliance is a non-fixed one that you get out to use, like a stowaway stove, where it has to be
Fantastic job the van is looking great
Thank you! 🙂👍
🎉 u sure the aluminium sheet it’s “half mill” that’s thin
Yep! We thought the same when we were editing it so went back to check the order history, it was definitely 0.5mm. It's the thickness mentioned in the manual for the cooker so we went with that, and glad we did as it was just thin enough to be able to score and break instead of having to bust out the power tools 😛
Fantastic job guys
Cheers! 👍
Hello!! I don't wanna be rude but Would you mind me telling what camera do you use for filming your videos? and what you use to edit them?
Hey! Sure, not rude at all 😀 We use a Sony ZV1 for our main camera and a Go Pro Hero 8 for timelapse, there should be a link to both in the description. And for editing we use Da Vinci Resolve which is great! 👍
@@SelfBuiltStories thank you so much.
@@ferdm9646 no problem 👍
What size fuse did you use for the power for the gauge? As I’m about to fit mine cheers stuart
It only needs to be really small as it barely uses any power. We used a 3A which is the smallest we had at the time, but a 1 or 2A would be fine as well 👍
Thank you
@@Stuartsdeliveryvan No problem 👍
The earth bonding for the copper pipe could it go into a socket backbox thats connected to the consumer unit?
Hmm, the wiring regs say that it should connect to 'the main earthing terminal' (MET), which for us in the van is the earth bar in the consumer unit. We did consider connecting it somewhere else on the van chassis as it would have been a much shorter wiring run for us, and ultimately the earth bar is bonded to that anyway. But we decided against it in the end as we prefer to follow the specs as closely as possible.
If you connect it via the socket then you're reliant on a secondary link (from the socket back to the consumer unit) to ensure the gas remains bonded, and if that socket was removed at some point then it would take the bond with it and you'd have to remember to put it somewhere else. For similar reasons in a domestic install the earth clamp must be within 600mm of where the gas pipe enters the property and before any branches, and it's not allowed to piggyback the bond via another already bonded pipe. It has to have its own dedicated wire so that removing any pipework from the install won't leave other parts of it un-bonded. You can run a single wire to multiple pipes, but it must be one continuous (unbroken) one going via them all because of that.
A lot of things in the van are a bit of a grey area as the regs are primarily written for domestic settings where as a DIYer you wouldn't even be allowed to do any gas work yourself. So we would always advocate following everything to the letter as much as possible and getting it checked over by a Gas Safe engineer afterwards as well for peace of mind 👍
@@SelfBuiltStories Brilliant reply! Thank you 🙏
@@CoupleaCampers No problem 🙂👍
Guys I followed some of your earlier tutorials but can’t believe you’re still working on this. I built mine in just over 3 months. Way more patience than me.
We actually finished the build a long time ago now but still catching up with the videos. They take a lot of work to edit so have to find the time for that. Spent the last 3 months in Norway which didn't help 😎
I'm so glad you guys are back from Norway 🙂so I can enjoy your video's again. As always it looks great again. I love the attention to detail on the how and why. Curious about the next vid!
Haha thank you, we miss Norway already! But it is easier to get round to editing our videos here, we had planned to do more while we were over there but with the almost midnight sun we found ourselves outside most of the day instead 😍⛰